Combination tent, hammock, and packsack



Aug. 14, 1923.

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COMBINATION TENT, HAMMOCK, AND PAGKSACK Filed Oct 2-1, 1921 5 sheetssheet 5 AZYWRNEK the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, haveinvented certain new anduseful Patented Aug. 1 1923.

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:OLIVER "I1. HULL AND MARGUERITE E. HULL, 0F PORTLAND, OREGON,ASSIGNOR-S,

BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF ONE-FOURTH TO OF PORTLAND, OREGON,ONE-FOURTH TO SAID GLIVER L.

, TO SAID MARGUERITE E. HULL.

, CHARLEY ABBG'IT, HULL, AND ONE-HALF COMBINATION TENT, HAMMOCK, ANDPACKSACK.

Application filed October 21, 1921. Serial No. 509,253.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, OLIVER L. IIULL andMARGUERITE E. HULL,'citiZens of the United States of America, residingat Portland, in

Improvements in Combination Tents, Hammocks, and Packsacks, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Our present invention relates generallyto pack outfits for campers,travelers or lumbermens use as well as for army use, and moreparticularly to a tent, hammock or canopied hammock and pack sackcapable of being transported either in part or in whole upon the personin the form of a shoulder pack, with the travelers effects such asblankets, food, cooking utensils and the like.

More especially our invention aims to pro vide a light, strong outfit ofwhich the hammock may be used with or without the tent or canopy andwith orwvitlioiit unpacking the sacks, and in which the several partsmay be quickly and easily released for use as well as folded andconnected in compact non-slipping form for transportation as a shoulderpack.

These general objects, as well as certain others residing in thedetails, together with the resulting advantages of our invention, willbe better understood from the following description, which refers to theaccompany ing drawings, the latter forming a part of this specification.

In these figures,:

Figure 1 is a side view of the complete de vice set up for use andpartly broken away,

Figure-2 is, an end view of the complete device set up as inFigure 1,

F igure 3 is an enlarged side view'of one Figure 7 is a bottom mock orbed,

Figure 8 is a plan view of one of the support holding bags,

Figure 9 is a rear elevati plete pack,

on of the com- Figure 10 is a detail longitudinal section through theupper portion of one end of the canopy ortent,

Figure 11 is an end view of the tent or can'opy,

- Figure 12 is an enlarged perspective view of the connected ends of theupright sections and the outstanding canopy supporting arms,

Figure 13 is an enlarged vertical section through one side ofthe tent orcanopy taken on line 1313 of Figure 1, V

Figure l i is an enlarged longitudinal section taken through a portionof the hammock on line 1*l-14; of Figure 7,

Figure 15 is a detail perspective view of one of the land anchors andits connection,

Figure 16 is a side view on an enlarged scale of one of the supportingconnections Figures 17 and 18 are respectively a plan and side view ofthe anchor setting bar, and

Figure 19 is a detail cross section taken on line 19-19 of Figure 18.

The hammock, which in its folded position forms the outer covering ofthe complete pack shown in Figure 9 has a plain unbroken upper surfaceas will be observed from Figure 1, the various connections providing forthe formation and support of the pack being upon its lower surface, aswell as the pockets or sacks 21 and 22, the latter of which are locatedadjacent to opposite ends of the hammock and centrally between its sideedges. This hammock 20 consists of an enlarged rectangular section ofcanvas or other suitable material having its ends folded back andsecured thereon to form tubular transverse end guides 23 and 24respectively adjacent to the pockets or sacks 21 and 22.

Along its opposite sides, the lower surface of the hammock, has rows oflengthwise spaced and slotted eyelets, those along one side beingindicated at 25 and those along the other side being indicated at 26,and ina row lengthwise along one side of the pockets or sacks 21 and 22are a series'of pivoted books 27 which are to engage the eyelets 26.This is accomplished by first folding one side 28 of the hammockinwardly on its center and then folding the other side 29 over thepreviously folded side 28 so that by engaging hooks 27 with eyelets 26the folded sides of the hammock will be secured over blankets and thelike as well as the'folded canopy to be hereinafter described, beforethe ham mock is folded endwise.

In the central portion of the lower surface of the hammock, between thesacks 21 and 22 are laterally spaced lengthwise extending shoulderstraps 30, riveted or otherwise permanently secured at their upper endsto a reenforcing cross piece 31, and having extending tongues 32 attheir lower ends adj ustably engaged with buckles 33 secured to thehammock. Between the lower ends of these shoulder straps 30 and thepocket or sack 22 are a transverse series of buckles 34 which arepositioned at the lower end of the complete pack after the lateral.folds above described have been made, by endwise folding in overlappingrelation, the end having pocket or sack 22 being first folded in andthen the opposite end overlapped, so that straps 35 extending from theouter end of sack 21 may be engaged with buckles 34 around the lower endof the pack seen in Figure 7.

The endwise folding still leaves the sides of the overlapped ends open,and to secure these sides and prevent sagging, strips 36 and 37 alongopposite sides of the sack 21 and shoulder straps 30, have lengthwiseseries of lacing studs or hooks 38 with which laces 39 as shownin Figure9 coact. These strips 36 and 37 also respectively carry buckles 40 andstraps 41 adapted to form adjustable attaching loops at opposite sidesof the finished pack for the purpose of holding tubular casings 42, oneof which is shown in detail in Figure 8, adapted to contain the foldinghammock and tent sup ports to be hereinafter described.

Thus in the form of a pack, the shoulder straps 30 are at the inner farewhile the pocket 21 is outermost and will therefore be utilized inpractice to hold those articles if any likely to be wanted duringtravel.

Moreover this pocket 21 which as shown in Figure 14 has both inner andouter walls the former attached along its sides to the hammock, may havean opening 43 at its inner end, which will be its upper end in the packform, through which to thrust the handle of a pick, shovel, axe and thelike.

It is quite obvious from the above that the hammock as thus describedand adapted for folding is entirely flexible throughout and beforepassing to its supports, attention is particularly called to the factthat all sacks, pack connections and the like are upon the lower surfaceof the hammock and the latter is thus adapted to be set up and usedwithout detachment and possible loss of any of these connection and withthe sacks in packed or unpacked state.

The supports for the hammock include a pair of end rails 45, enduprights and ground connections, and to receive the end rails 45, thetubular end guides 23 and 24 have openings 46 intermediate their ends oflengthwise slotted form. The rails are each in two similar end" sections47 hingedly connected at their inner ends by hinge plates 48 whoseleaves have apertures 49 registering in the open or unfolded position.One section thereof has a brace channel 50 rigid therewith and extendingfrom the inner end thereof to be engaged by the other section in theopen position. The sections 47 also have angularly projecting eyes 51adjacent to their outer ends and so disposed that after the sections 47are folded and their outer ends introduced into oneof the tubular guideopenings 46 the sections 47 are gradually straightened until the entirerail extends along and within the guide of the hammock, and the railmust then be rotated in the guide to bring the apertured portions 49 ofthe hinge plates 48 outermost and per mit the eyes 51 to dependthroughapertures 52 in the lower outer portions of the guide tubes 23 and 24 ofthe hammockJ \Vhen thus disposed in the tubular guides therefore, theend rails 45 at opposite ends of the hammock 10, may be connected tohooks 53 projecting inwardly from the up per ends of hammock supportingend uprights 54, these books being engageable with the aperturedportions or, eyes 49 of the hinge plates 48 and being associated withcrown pieces of the uprights 54 which also have downwardlyand outwardlyinclined and slotted cars 56 to receive the upper snap-hooks 57 ofanchor connecting guy ropes 58. At its lower end each hammock supportingupright 54 has a foot piece 59 provided with ground entering spurs 60and with upstanding side cars 61 the latter serving to receive snaphooks 62 at the lower end portions of hammock steadying ropes 63, havingat their upper ends snap hooks 64 to engage the beforementioned eyes 51of the hammock end rails 45.

The ropes 63 like the guy ropes 58 are adjustable by virtue of theirclutches 65, and the outer ends of the guy ropes 58 have snap hooks 66engageable with the rings 67 of anchor cables 68 whose outer ends aresecured in the anchor plates 69 shown particularly in Figures 15 and 16.

The anchor plates 69 are generally triangular with Vshaped recesses 70at their widest ends opening into slots 71, the latter of which are thusadapted to receive cross pins 72 of the bifurcated end 73 of a drivingbar 74. The base of the bifurcation of this barv is adapted to interfitthe recess 70 when the anchor plate is positioned within the bifurcationas seen in dotted lines in Figure 17 so that a hammer and the like maybe used against the opposite or head end 75 of the bar to easily drivethe anchor plate into the ground as shown in Figure 16. Y

The tent or canopy generally indicated at 76 in Figures 1, 2 and 11, hasits sides 77 sloping from its upper central portions and provided attheir lower edges with depending side extensions 78 and has flat endwalls 79 whose lower portions depend flush with the lower edges of theside extensions. Extending inwardly fromv the end walls 7 9 at the uppercentral portion of the canopy and along the lower edges of the sidewalls 77 are tubes 80, housing springs 81 whose inner ends are securedto the tubes and whose outer ends project loosely through the outer endsof the tubes and have terminal hooks 82 for engagement with eye plates83 at the outer ends of the canopy supporting upright 84 and its hingedarms 85.

The canopy supporting uprights have root pieces 86 at their lower endsprovided with apertured ears 87 hingedly connected to similar ears S8 ofthe crown pieces of the hammock supporting uprights 5-1, so that thecanopy supporting uprights thus upstand from the hammock supportinguprights in use, it being noted that the hinge comic:- tionstherebetween formed by cotter pins 89 through the ears 87 and 88, flexoutwardly,

' and are readily detachable in case the canopy is not used. The armsare hinged at their lower inner ends to the foot piece 86 and also haveintermediate jointed braces 90 connected to the uprights and it isobvious that by flexing the braces 90, either or both sides of one orboth ends of the canopy may be raised as indicated by dotted lines inFigure 2, in view of the spring connections 81.

In use, the end walls 79 of the canopy depend below the end rails so ofthe hammock 20 between the latter and its support ing uprights 54 andfor this reason each end wall 79 has a vertical slit 91, as seen inFigure 11 so as to straddle the hammock hook Adjacent to the inner endof each slit 91 is preferably provided a connecting hook so that the endwall may be closed around the hook 53.

Each end wall 79 may also have an inner pocket 93, and each of the sideextensions 78, which drop below the hammock 20 in use, has an innerlengthwise series of pivoted hooks 94 to engage the side eyelets 25 and26 of the hammock so that the space above the latter and within thecanopy may be c0mpletely closed.

The side extensions 78 are also preferably provided with. nettingcovered openings 95, each opening having an external closing flap 96 tothe central portion of the lower free edge of which a flexible adjustingconnection 97 is secured. This connection as best show in Figure 13passes through openings in the flap 96 and through openings in theextension 78 Or the canopy so that the flap may be raised and lowered,or partially adjusted from within the canopy.

Thus it is obvious that as the side portions and ends of the canopydepend below the hammock, rain will be prevented from dripping onto thelatter, and that when the hammock 20 sags under the weight of thesleeper, the canopy remains taut as any riexure is taken up in itsspring connections.

It is likewise obvious that when making up the pack, the canopy may bereadily cletached and folded in order that it may be placed within thefolded hammock, and that the supporting uprights after folding as shownin Figure 8, along with the folding hammock end rails, the ropes andcables, may be placed in the. casings a2 and strapped to the pack as inFigure 7, making a compact, easily shouldered, and light-weight packwhich will not slip nor sag during travel.

lVe claim:

1. A tent hammock including a canopy, a hammock around which the canopydepends and to which the hammock is connected, end supports for thehammock and canopy, said canopy having tubular spring holders extendinglengthwise thereof from its ends, and springs connected at their innerends to said holders and projecting outwardly for engagement with saidsupports.

2. In a device of the character described, a flexible hammock havingtubular transverse guides at the opposite ends thereof, and end rails infoldalole hinged sections removably disposed in said guides and havinghinge plates provided with apertured portions extending there-from inthe direction of: folding thereof, and. end supports with which saidapertured portions are en gageable.

3. A device of the character described in cluding a hammock, a canopytherefor, end supports including uprights in hinged sections to thelower sections of which the hammock is connected, outstanding armshinged at their inner ends to the lower portions of the upper sectionsof the uprights, and means on the canopy to engage the outer ends ofsaid arms and the upper ends of the upper sections of the uprights, saidlast named means including springs yieldable lengthwise of the canopyand mounted in portions of the canopy for the purpose described.

4:. A tent hammock, including a flexible foldable canopy, a hammockdetachably connected to the canopy and adapted to en close the canopywhen the latter is detached and folded, means carried by the hammock tosecure the latter in folded relation around the canopy, foldablesupports for the canopy and hammock, means carried by the ha1n mock toattach the said supports when folded to the sides of the folded hammock,and shoulder straps also carried by the hammock.

5. A device of the character described including a foldable canopy and ahammock of flexible foldable nature adapted to enclose the canopy whenfolded and having means to secure its side portions in overlapped foldson its central portion, and means to secure its end portions inoverlapped folds upon its central portion.

6. A tent hammock including a. canopy and a hammock of flexible foldablenature, the latter being adapted to enclose the former when folded andhaving means to secure its side portions in overlapped folds on itscentral portion, and means to secure its end portions in overlapped.folds upon its central portion, and means to also bind together the sideedges of the endwise overlapped folds.

7. A tent hammock including a canopy and a hammock of flexible foldablenature, the latter adapted to enclose the former and having means tosecure its side portions in overlapped folds on its central portion, andmeans to secure its end portions in overlapped folds upon its centralportion, said means being located Wholly upon the lower surface of thehammock, lacing means also on said lower surface and arranged to extendalong the side edges of the endwise folds, supports for the canopy andhammock in use, and means at said side edges of the folded hammock tobind and hold the said supports when folded.

In testimonywhereof we have affixed our signatures.

OLIVER L. HULL. HARGUERITE E. HULL.

